Thursday, April 19, 2007

The Pony in Memphis Removes "Got Boobs?" Billboard

A controversial billboard located on US 61 is coming down.

The Pony owner Charles "Jerry" Westlund has agreed to take down a billboard that reads "Got Boobs?" that's located along the northbound side of US 61 on the way to Memphis from Tunica.

Westlund and Walls Mayor Gene Alday reached an agreement Tuesday.

Alday says the pair talked businessman to businessman and Westlund agreed to change the sign and replace it with something more suitable.

Memphis attorney Edward Bearman represents Westlund and says his client is happy with the outcome.

Alday says he's been told by Westlund that the printer is already at work on another billboard.

The controversial billboard is the second of three -- the series is designed to draw customers to The Pony.

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Crazy Horse Too liquor license deadline

The Las Vegas City Council is again considering the fate of a well-known strip club just off the Las Vegas Strip.

A temporary liquor license the council granted to Crazy Horse Too manager Michael Signoreli expires tomorrow (Wednesday). Not having a liquor license would hurt the business.But the city has already granted two temporary licenses -- and can't grant any more.

Signoreli took over after long-time owner Rick Rizzolo was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison. Rizzolo agreed to sell his interest in the club. 16 other current and former Crazy Horse Too employees also pleaded to reduced charges and were sentenced to end a decade-long federal probe of whether the club was tied to the mob.

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Friday, April 06, 2007

Albuquerque's SunVan bus - Next Stop Knockouts

Mayor irritated at use of taxpayer dollars.

On March 2, ABQ Ride's SunVan paratransit service gave 671 door-to-door rides to people who - because of some disability - weren't able to use the regular fixed-route bus service.

Assuming the usual pattern prevailed that day, most of those riders were looking to get to work or medical appointments. The rest used the service, which is mandated under the Americans with Disabilities Act, to get to places like restaurants, shops, movie theaters and churches.

And three of those rides, according to ABQ Ride Director Greg Payne, went to Knockouts, a Downtown strip club.

Taxpayer dollars doled out so someone could go to a strip club?

Something's wrong with that, say Payne and Mayor Martin Chavez. But their ideas for changing the "problem," as they see it, are angering some in the disabled community and might be in violation of federal civil rights law.

Ideally, Payne said, SunVan would be allowed to prioritize, so someone going to work or a medical appointment would have priority over someone going to the mall or a strip club.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

City Ordinance May Change the Rules at Michelle's Beach House

Derby, KS

The city told her it was OK to open the strip club, now they're saying only if you follow the new rules.

Customers can not touch and dancers can't bare too much. Those are some of the laws listed in a new Derby ordinance pertaining to adult entertainment.

Michelle Borin, the owner of Michelle's Beach House says the new ordinance should not apply to her club.

She says the city of Derby allowed her to move her strip club closer to town and allowed her to open for business.

Less than a month later, she says the city changed the ordinance.

Borin says this is how she's run her business for the last ten years.

Borin says, "I should be grand-fathered in and with this new ordinance. If anyone wants to come to the city of Derby, that should apply to them."

Derby City Manager, Kathy Sexton, says when the city creates or changes its ordinance, they pertain to everyone.

Borin has already taken her case to court.

On Friday, a Sedgwick County judge issued a temporary restraining order, allowing dancers to abide by the old ordinance for two weeks.

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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Great story about Tom Katz in Flora Vista, NM

A 37-year-old Aztec man was arrested March 4 after refusing to pay for lap dances at a local strip club, and then drunkenly driving his van three feet into the Flora Vista business.

At around 1 a.m. March 4, deputies were called to the Flora Vista strip club after employees reported that someone had driven into the side of building with a van, Truby said. Deputies were provided a description of the van and a possible license plate number, and arrested Charley before arriving at Tom Katz.

When deputies later arrived at the club, they learned Charley had been there and was receiving lap dances from some of the female dancers. When Charley refused to pay for some of the dances, bouncers began to escort him out of the building.

Charley "became belligerent and attempted to hit one of the bouncers," Truby said. Once outside the building, Charley paid for his dances and got into his van to leave.

The bouncers went back into the building when they heard a loud crash.

"Witnesses heard a loud noise, looked over and the doors were almost pushed open and there was a lot of light coming through," Truby said. "That's when (Charley) backed up his van and started driving at the building again."

One bouncer was forced to jump inside an office near the front doors when Charley rammed the entrance. The van eventually came to a stop nearly three feet inside the strip club.

Charley then backed out of the club and drove toward Aztec.

Truby said the incident was a rare occurrence, noting the damage to the building was estimated to be $1,000.

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Friday, March 09, 2007

Ecstasy Pills At Strip Club

Beaverton, OR -- Washington County authorities arrested a Beaverton man after they said he hid 1,001 Ecstasy pills in the parking lot of a strip club Wednesday.

The FBI and a Washington County narcotics team arrested Phat Nguyen, 35, on several drug-related charges.

Investigators said they saw Nguyen hide a bag in the parking lot of the Dolphin II Gentleman’s Club on Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway in Beaverton. When officers recovered the bag, authorities said they found 1,001 Ecstasy pills.

A sheriff’s deputy later stopped Nguyen in his car and he was taken into custody.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office said there is no evidence linking the strip club to Nguyen.

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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Prostitution bust at Scores NYC

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There is legal trouble at the strip club Scores and now, several dancers are under arrest and charged with prostitution.

All were taken into custody during an undercover sting operation. Police suspect sexual activity is happening inside the club.

Undercover cops with the vice squad entered the club late Wednesday night and they allege that several dancers engaged them in sexually explicit conversation, and allegedly told the undercover officers that some of the rooms here could be rented for sexual acts.

An attorney for the seven people arrested denies the charges and says that each of these individuals has pleaded not guilty and expects after a thorough investigation to be vindicated.

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Friday, January 19, 2007

New strip club on 8 Mile?

On the heels of a city battle over a new Larry Flynt Hustler Club in downtown Detroit, another skirmish is brewing over a topless bar being proposed on 8 Mile on the site of a former go-kart track.

Community advocates working to revitalize the corridor are calling for a moratorium on such businesses, arguing the city already has 33 such bars, nine of which are located on the famed boundary between the city and suburbs.

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Fisher, executive director of the Detroit Community Initiative, a nonprofit that works in northeast Detroit, where the new bar is planned, and other advocates plan to voice their concerns at a Jan. 31 hearing before the city's Department of Buildings and Safety Engineering, where the property's owner will apply to use the land for a topless bar.

The 6-acre property on 8 Mile and Mt. Elliott is zoned for industrial use. Under the city's regulations, new topless bars cannot open on land zoned for commercial use, but they can open on land zoned for industrial use.

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Saturday, January 06, 2007

Al's Diamond Cabaret gets liquor license


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"The days of customers lugging cases of beer into a renowned Reading strip club are about to end.

Al's Diamond Cabaret, 1810 N Fifth St, has received conditional approval for a liquor license from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, agency spokeswoman Dawn R. Petrosky said.

The agency in November approved transferring a restaurant liquor license held by Terrapin Station Inc. at 5 N. Ninth St. to Al's Diamond Cabaret, Petrosky said.

Obtaining a liquor license will allow the bottle club where patrons had been paying an entrance fee and bringing in their own booze to start selling liquor.

Petrosky said the club, which serves food, must pass a final inspection by the PLCB before alcohol can be served."

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Friday, December 29, 2006

Former strip club Gobel's in Shepherdsville, KY demolished


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"It took less than an hour yesterday for Bullitt County employees to raze the former home of Gobel's Exotic Entertainment in Shepherdsville.

Workers from the road department began demolishing the building at about 10 am, bringing down the purple-trimmed walls and green roof.

The building, once home to a chain restaurant, had been a strip club for more than a decade and was considered an eyesore by many local residents. Bullitt Fiscal Court voted last week to demolish the vacant building. The county bought it in February for $1 million from owner Gobel Newsome."

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Alabama spray on bikinis, still legal

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BIRMINGHAM | The strippers at Sammy's have a few tools of the trade: Thongs, garter belts stuffed with $1 bills, 6-inch heels and spray-on bikinis.

Under a settlement between 18 adult nightclubs and the Alabama attorney general's office, dancers statewide are spritzing their buttocks and breasts with flesh-colored latex to comply with the state's anti-nudity law, one of the most restrictive in the nation.

Club operators figured out that a combination of thongs and latex spray -- most commonly used as theatrical makeup -- would meet the law's restrictions if dancers used the rubber to cover themselves in just the right places.

The state, which already was defending against a lawsuit filed by strip clubs challenging the law, says it reluctantly went along with the clubs rather than having a federal judge follow through on his threat to throw out the entire statue as unconstitutional.

With the settlement, prosecutors agreed to dismiss charges against the operator of a Huntsville strip club called Fantasia Gentleman's Club, where dancers earlier this year were accused of illegally dancing in the buff

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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Interesting take on Masters in Myrtle Beach

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"Masters is the largest gentleman's club on the Grand Strand, probably one of the largest anywhere with over 33,000 square feet. This sounds great - to those who enjoy that kind of thing of course (uncouth louts!) - but it's a flawed concept. Many of the seats are so far away from the gigantic stage that you feel the need for binoculars.

Bringing the nose bleed seats to strip clubs isn't such a fantastic idea.

Again, maybe it was a long week before Christmas thing, but I'd be wary of the Masters. Though it does have relatively cheap beer ($3.75 Bud Lights).

I was in and out in only one beer though, spending the shortest time ever recorded in a strip club by a man (about 20 minutes). Of course, I was only there because I was looking out for you. That's how seriously I take these travel responsibilities."

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More info on the Mustang, TX strip club battle...

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Mustang, TX - It's not much to look at: two dusty streets, a strip club, a boarded-up country western bar, one trash bin, and a dilapidated trailer park where the entire population lives.

This 75-acre town, carved from a pasture in 1973 to sell alcohol so a beer run was no longer a 60-mile drive to Dallas, is broke, withering and down to about 50 residents.

Yet even with the place in such dismal shape, two people have been fighting for a year over who effectively owns Mustang: the strip-club operator and the little-known widow of the town's co-founder.

That fight will makes Jan. 17 – when a judge is expected to decide the rightful owner and who will try to fix its financial problems – an important date in its history.

"All I want is to see Mustang on its feet again so we can pay the bills," said Gary Arnett, chief of the town's two-man volunteer fire department. "We have children here. I don't want to see the town have to relocate."

Tax revenue has fallen from about $1,500 a month to just $28 in November, generated only by the strip club. Mustang came close to losing water service this month because of a $3,400 unpaid bill.

The ownership battle is between Thomas Sinclair, who runs the Wispers Cabaret strip club and leases the shuttered Mustang Club bar, and Marsha McKie, whose late husband, William, co-founded the community. Sinclair agreed last year to buy the land from the McKies for $600,000, then filed a lawsuit alleging that they had not fulfilled all the terms of the deal.

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Friday, December 22, 2006

Van rams strip club for an ATM withdrawl

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DALLAS -- Police are searching for two men they say rammed a van into a strip club in an attempt to steal an ATM. Surveillance video from The Platinum Club in Dallas shows the van in the parking lot and slamming through the club's front doors.

The men can then be seen entering the club and heading for the ATM, which was bolted to the floor and to the wall.The pair quickly leave empty-handed, but the manager of the club is convinced the men will try the same thing at another location."We are hoping that by airing it they [the police] catch them and they don't do it to someone else. That's the key," said Rob Epperson, of The Platinum Club.

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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Missouri Strip Club Law Struck Down

Victory: Adult Entertainment Industry

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Kansas City - The Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a law banning nudity and imposing other restrictions on strip clubs violates the state constitution, according to a recently published report.  

The court had already deemed the law unconstitutional in August 2005. The court's decision was based on that fact that the law was tacked onto a bill toughening Missouri's drunken-driving laws, and the state constitution requires legislation to deal with only one subject.  

According to the Missouri Supreme Court, the strip club law constitutes "log-rolling," which refers to the practice of gathering several matters in a single bill, in the hope of ensuring their passage.  

According to Dan Margolies' report for the Kansas City Star, the ruling last year was a victory for the adult entertainment industry and yet another setback for Missouri Sen. Matt Bartle, the Lee's Summit Republican who sponsored the bill as well as other measures aimed at the adult entertainment industry.  

Margolies' report went on to say that the strip-club bill struck down Tuesday banned full nudity; required dancers to stay at least 10 feet from customers and behind a rail; barred dancers from touching customers; and required customers and dancers to be at least 21 years of age.

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Sunday, December 10, 2006

Memphis Strip Clubs Shut Down

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Federal charges are expected Monday, December 11, 2006 against the owners of two popular Mid-South strip clubs, accused of providing much more than lap dances. The doors at Platinum Plus on Mt. Moriah and the Tunica Caberet on South Third Street were closed early Saturday morning. Investigators haven't released the official charges, but they have hinted the bars were covers for everything from drug dealing to money laundering.

More than 75 people were arrested in the raids. Police had been investigating both clubs for almost two years.

Charges will be handed down at 10am Monday.

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Friday, December 08, 2006

Man Shoots Cheerleaders Stripper in Philly, Kills Himself

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A double shooting at a South Philadelphia strip club left a dancer wounded and a customer dead.

Police said the shooting happened just after 9 p.m. Thursday at the Cheerleaders Gentlemens Club on Front Street and Oregon Avenue.

Harmony Adams, a 31-year-old dancer, was shot in the back of the neck by 49-year-old Larry McGuigan, a regular customer, who shot himself in the head.

Both victims remain were taken to Jefferson University Hospital. McGuigan died from his injuries Friday, Adams is listed in stable condition.

There is no word on a motive. Philadelphia Police said they are working to determine whether the shooting was accidental or intentional.

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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Three men shot outside Dallas strip club

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Three men were shot during a gun battle outside a Dallas strip club last night. The men were walking to Privilege Men's Club on South Industrial Boulevard when a vehicle drove up and someone opened fire.

They were all hit but will survive, say police. One of the men did not require hospitalization.

No arrests have been made so far.

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Cape Canaveral man recaptured at strip club

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A handcuffed man slipped free from Brevard County sheriff’s deputies only to wind up getting recaptured at a strip club days later.

Marcus S. Dorsey, 29, is being held on a $6,000 bond at the county jail. He’s charged with escaping, possession of cocaine, petit theft, resisting arrest with violence, resisting without violence and domestic violence.

According to a Brevard County sheriff’s report:

Dorsey was arrested at his apartment at 200 International Drive around midnight Friday on a domestic violence call. He escaped while handcuffed.

Dorsey was found around 9:15 p.m. Sunday at the Inner Room Cabaret in Cocoa Beach. He was arrested after a brief struggle.

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